Btw please don't take it personally. What I'm saying is that indeed some people (including me as you see) WILL NEVER agree to be forced to change their coding style because Google engineers have decided so, but that doesn't mean we should stay away from go just because of our mental incapacity to agree on that.
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 9:32 AM, <ecstatic.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't know if you have read this post above : > > "BTW, I've just released Genesis, an open source generic preprocessor > which automatically converts Allman style code into K&R and allows > genericity by parametric instantiation. > > https://github.com/senselogic/GENESIS > > Better late than never... ;)" > > Obviously, I don't like AT ALL the K&R style, to which I prefer the Allman > style, for not only personal but also OBJECTIVE reasons. > > And yet I've learned Go and enjoy a lot to use this language, despite this > implies using an external tool to add genericity and fix the code > indentation. > > Btw here are the result of a small internet poll on indentation styles : > > - Allman : 7450 votes > - K&R style : 5514 votes > - Whitesmith : 455 > - GNU : 422 > - Horstman : 131 > - Pico : 93 > - Banner : 243 > > (http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/ > 10/the-only-correct-indent-style) > > Even if these 14000 votes are obviously not enough to reflect the whole > development community, at least you can see here that many developers > prefer the Allman style to the K&R style. > > So sorry, but I completely disagree with your advice to stay away from Go > if you don't like its forced indentation style policy. > > It's not only too radical, but also not needed, as there are already tools > to fix that issue. > > > On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 12:01:19 AM UTC+1, JuciÊ Andrade wrote: >> >> I propose a new rule for our Code of Conduct: Before posting to the "No >> Allman-Style, No go!" thread, you shall read and understand all previous >> posts in the aforementioned thread. >> >> Justo to be clear: Go indentation style is a time saver. It was carefuly >> crafted to piss some people off. As you can see, it works wonders. If >> someone can't handle a simple change in indentation style, then she has no >> business trying to learn Go, so she quits, thus saving time. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/golang-nuts/rzLzp_Z74ik/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
